Clinical professor and senior research scientist of biomusic at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Patricia Gray served for more than two decades as the artistic director and pianist of National Musical Arts (NMA), the resident ensemble of the National Academy of Sciences. She has appeared in performance with leading orchestras and chamber musicians and is the recipient of the Franz Liszt Commemorative Medal presented by the government of Hungary. A graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory, Dr. Gray earned a master’s degree in music at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and a doctorate in music at the College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati in 1977. She had joined the music faculty of Austin Peay State University in Clarkesville, Tennessee, six years earlier and served as a professor there until 1988 when she became an adjunct faculty member at the North Carolina School of the Arts. She accepted her present position at UNC/Greensboro in 2004. She is the founding director of the NMA BioMusic Program where she leads a team of scientists and musicians in an exploration of musical sounds in all species. She served as principal investigator (PI) for the National Science Foundation’s planning grant for Wild Music and was co-PI for the exhibits implementation grant. She works with Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, a scientist with the Great Ape Trust of Iowa, on an investigation of the musical abilities and preferences of bonobos. As a producer, Dr. Gray has interfaced non-Western music with Western chamber music in a series of international concerts, notably “India in the Air” (1998) with The Getty Conservation Institute and “Africa! Spirit Awakening” (2000) with the John F. Kennsedy Center for the Performing Arts. She has contributed articles to both music and science journals and was the lead author of widely-cited paper, “The Music of Nature and the Nature of Music,” which was published in Science in 2001.